Proper-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson launched a video Tuesday to tease his upcoming interview with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. The transient clip contains a tense alternate about attainable U.S. involvement in Israel’s struggle on Iran.
Carlson: How many individuals dwell in Iran, by the way in which?
Cruz: I do not know the inhabitants
Carlson: In any respect?
Cruz: No, I don’t know the inhabitants.
Carlson: You do not know the inhabitants of the nation you search to topple?
Cruz: How many individuals dwell in Iran?
Carlson: 92 million.
Cruz: Okay.
Carlson: How might you not know that?
Cruz: I do not sit round memorizing inhabitants tables.
Carlson: Effectively, it is type of related since you’re calling for the overthrow of the federal government.
Although predictable, Cruz’s ignorance about Iran completely encapsulates the GOP’s hysterical strategy to conflicts within the Center East.
Over the weekend, Cruz appeared on Fox Information’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” the place he declared, “I do not suppose there’s any redeeming the Ayatollah. He’s crammed with hatred.”
On the identical time, President Donald Trump has been stoking the embers of struggle, bombarding social media with one in every of his signature unhinged squalls about Iran, threatening potential U.S. involvement. And he continued to play the mad king, dismissing the intelligence assessments of his personal Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who acknowledged in March that Iran “shouldn’t be constructing a nuclear weapon.”
As america edges nearer towards struggle, it actually doesn’t encourage confidence to see that the supposed braintrust backing Trump appears to be equally uninformed concerning the nation he desires to decimate.
